1. Introduction to the Liturgy of the Hours 

Thank you very much for this. I am a Protestant who wants to become catholic in a few years. This really helps me.

This is very good. I spent three years in Catholic Seminary and never fully understood the books this well. We did Morning and Evening prayer in the Chapel. Night Prayer was on our own. I still love them. Incredible way to pray. It is worth the effort to learn. Thank you. Bill

Even though I prefer the Western Rite Orthodox Benedictine Matins and Monastic Diurnal, I do quite like the Liturgy of the Hours. I would definitely buy the Leather Bound edition if I were to pray these instead of the traditional Benedictine hours. Your videos are excellent, so you are an advanced layman. Matins is my favorite hour, so definitely I'd have to use the 4 volume set instead of the one volume Christian Prayer. I think many Catholic laymen will benefit for you videos on the LOTH.

Thank you so much - this is just what I've been looking for! For some time I have felt that God was inviting me to a deeper prayer life, and I wasn't sure how to go about that. When I found out what praying the liturgy of the hours was, it was like the answer to a prayer. I now have my first book - Volume II (Lent & Easter) - and plan to being on Ash Wednesday next week, This group of videos is just what I need. Grace a Dieu!

I have been to so many videos to get a real sense of how to pray the Office and this is the best one I have found so far. It has made me very confident I can buy the entire Office and pray it without too much difficulty. I know it takes a lot of time to do well, but I am ready to "dive right in". Thank you so much for sharing these very important tips and tools.

Man! This is thorough. I watched another video on this from the Catholic Company, which was pretty good, but it just didn't get it across well enough for me. I love how you structured this video, to include its history, and the unboxing element is cool to. Im a postulant in a religious order and need to understand the liturgy of the hours better, and this is just what i needed. Thanks for responding to the spirit and making this for us all. On to video 2!

Excellent series on the Liturgy of the Hours, very complete and very helpful. I like the logical approach and the very complete explanations. Great stuff.

This is what I need in my life

God bless you for taking the time to do this video and share it. I have watched several other videos on the Liturgy of Hours on RU-vid and have come away with a headache and a feeling of frustration. Your video is so darn clear! Thank you! I finally am beginning to understand how the Liturgy of the Hours works! Especially helpful is actually opening the books and pamphlets to see what's there. I can't thank you enough. You are an answer to prayer.

I watched the whole series. Thank you! This is the most comprehensive tutorial on this prayer i found on youtube. The demonstrations for each hour really helped😊

I've been using apps for the Liturgy of the Hours for quite awhile, but pray that I will be able to afford to buy my own copies someday. Praying with your phone is not the same as holding the books. Love this series that you've done - so thorough!

Total everyday layperson perspective on this... I love it! Thanks for the vid on this!

Just bought my set, thanks!!

Thank you so much for these videos. I'm still not learned enough to feel comfortable but I know how to pray every hour and I'm starting to have an idea where to flip to. Thank you so much these videos have been a wonderful help!

You have helped me so much! I have been determined to master this form of prayer and I am succeeding, thanks to your videos. I listen over and over until I get it! I can’t thank you enough!

Thank you this is very helpful!

I was watching your video and rigarding the wording of (Glory to the Father...) it is the new version of the prayer. It was change a few years ago. Most "old" people use that form. I have been praying the office since 1967 mostly in Latin and Italian. Five years ago I switched to the current LOH. Pax et Bonum

Chris, just wanted you to know how much I appreciate your Liturgy of the Hours teaching videos. I have been wanting to pray the Hours for 40 years and just got turned off by the complexity and obviously my personal lack of discipline. Your teaching style and depth of coverage was what I needed to be successful. So happy I found you. You will probably see me going back to your videos over and over....but I am learning. Got the Invitatory and Morning Prayer down pretty well and now moving to the evening prayer. I'd like to do all the Hours but my goal right now is to be consistent in these 3 areas. God's blessing to you and your family and again thanks for helping me!

Thank you for all your wonderful videos. Really helped me so much. Now i cannot imagine my life without these books. God bless you.

Hey Christopher, guess what! Just bought my 4 volume set, yay! Thanks again for your advice. I cannot wait to add the office of readings to my routine. Once you get started with morning, evening, and night you really want to do the rest of the day :)

Super cool !!! Loved it. I needed this tutorial. Warmth, gratitude & blessings! 🙏🌹📿🙋‍♀️

Millions of thanks 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thanks for doing this video series, as you said its difficult to get started.

Very good, I appreciate your work on this.

Very thorough. Thanks, Chris - may the Lord reward you for all the good work you put into making this series!

Thanks for doing this video. I thought Liturgy of the hours was only meant for the priests and the nuns. Very thoroughly explained.

Many thanks, Christopher! It is great to see how universal the Catholic Church and it's liturgy of the hours is. I am German and I looked for a good introduction to the liturgy of the hours in German. But I found nothing satisfactory.... until I stumbled upon your series on RU-vid. It is extremely helpful to me, even though I pray the LOH in German with German breviaries. But only the language is different, all the rest - structure, sequence, calendar etc. - is the same using my German language breviary. So, I just follow your instructions... Thanks again for your helpful and thorough introduction. It makes things much easier for me, here in Heidelberg, Germany! 🙂🤝🙏

2021. This video is a must watch. My desire to pray with the Church brought me here. Well thanks for thia great effort to share your knowledge. I am about to begin this Advent with my new book Breviary. From the Philippines!

This is AWESOME!! Thank you for doing this. I have always wanted to do the full 4 volume set, for years have been doing the Christian Prayer volume. The priest in my old parish saw that I had the Shorter Christian Prayer book, looked at and said here try this one (Christian Prayer). I love it, but I always wanted to take on the full set of Hours, but wasn't sure how complicated it would be and you can't find anyone (Priest included) that want to teach this amazing prayer. God Bless you!

You’re a good man for making this video.

Thank you a hundred times for this video series. I have to learn to pray this as part of my activities with a third order, and your videos were recommended to me as the best how-to instruction. We are expected to use books at the meetings, why I don't know because it seems like most of the members are using the apps for their daily prayers outside the meetings, and many of the resources telling us how to pray this are way too much into theology and not enough into practical advice. I don't need to be told how to think about Jesus when I read a psalm, I need to be told how to flip around in the book 10 times without going insane.

Excellent block of instruction. Good shit, thank you!

God bless you Sir for providing us with your videos. I appreciate the efforts that you have done. It was very helpful and your videos and comments are helpful indeed. Now I know which prayers books to buy in order for me to step up my devotions and prayer life. Your video instructions are the best guide we can find here in YT! God bless you Sir! Deo gratias! 🙏🏻

I started praying the Liturgy of the Hours about 4 months ago using an app installed on my smartphone. The problem I've found using my phone is the screen makes my eyes tired. But my birthday is coming soon and today I decided to buy the 4 volume book set. I'm very excited to get them. Your video is really helpful because I know I'll need practice finding out how to navigate my new books :)

Hey Christopher, I’m not from jersey so I’m not buying from jersey so put that in your pipe, anyway thanks for the suggestion . Buy the way I like your style this has been extremely helpful.

Thank you so much for doing these videos. This really helped me to set up my books and to get to grip with them (I probably need to watch them a few times more and then the SOL series that you did.).

Very helpful! Thank you.

Yo were all gonna pray lets go.

Please consider a video on Bishop Baron’s monthly LOHs publication. And other publication.

Oh by the way, I got started during 2022 Easter Season; nothing like getting thrown into everything that could change!

I came to knowing of the Divine Office late in life. As an aspiring deacon we were required to learn the practice. As time went by, I came to wonder, "why did I not know about this sooner?" St. Ambrose (lived in the 4th Century and one of the first doctors of the Church wrote this about the book of Psalms: "History instructs us, the law teaches us, prophecy foretells, correction punishes, morality persuades; but the book of psalms goes further than all these. It is medicine for our spiritual health. Whoever reads it will find in it a medicine to cure the wounds caused by his own particular passions. Whoever studies it deeply will find it a kind of gymnasium open for all souls to use, where the different psalms are like different exercises set out before him. In that gymnasium, in that stadium of virtue, he can choose the exercises that will train him best to win the victor’s crown." I have come to understand the practice of the Divine Office is like working out in this gymnasium of which St. Ambrose spoke. It is not just the psalms - but the psalms comprise the majority of it. I appreciate that you promote this "workout".

Thank you

I found the Liturgy of The Hour mentioned in the Novena of Blessed Imelda prayer (patron saint of First Communion). At the young age of nine years old she was doing the Devine Hour (Liturgy of the Hour) in a covent with nuns whom her parents had allowed the child to be educated and trained by them because the child loved God so much. I found the application on the cell phone called, "Laudate". It is simply organized there. However I am going to start to safe money to invest in the hardback books to own and use. I want them in my home because the internet may become unavailable for weather or cell towers not operating. Not to mention I want to learn the true way of studying, worship, singing, and praying throughout the day with the schedule to help me discipline my soul, mind, heart, etc. for God is so good that I need to commit myself to him. So far I have been using the application coming up on two weeks. The schedule that you share with us that you use I am doing to. I so much from you further and for that I thank you. May God bless you for teaching myself and you viewers, I too a layperson.

You should do a video on the Little Office of Baltimore

Best idea is to build up your collection, get one book once every month.

I'm here 😁✌️

Can you do a video using the Christian Prayer book?

I usually refer to it as the Brievery or Liturgy of the hours

Unfortunately it is VERY expensive, i don’t think you can even find the whole set in public libraries

Christopher could you do the Office of Readings (Matins) as a stand alone in the One volume Christian Prayer? Once I get past the OoR Psalms and Psalm prayer it says use Readings sprayer from Office of the Day. The morning and evening each have a reading but no patristic or hagiographic reading? Can you cover this…. Do I just use Biblical and non-biblical texts in back of volume? Thanks, Pax.

Hey Christopher can you tell me what times(like a timeline) to pray the hours? Like I know how to pray them but not sure when to pray them during the day. Thank you so much for teaching me how to pray the LOTH! ❤️✝️

I'm at a standstill with my decision. 4 vol set vs the 1 book. Will I pray the whole day? Probably not. Morning/Evening and maybe mid-day. Will I be unhappy with the 1 book? Will I regret the hefty price tag of the 4 vol set? Will the 4 vol set be too confusing for me? Ugh! Also, thank you for all your videos on LotH.

Where do I find the hymns? I just got my book for Easter.

What time do you do the office of readings? Thank you for posting all this information. Well done!

I’m going to get the 4 book set. Do you feel from Amazon might be risking it regarding fake or issues with print?

What's better vinyl or leather? Should I buy the leather zipper case?

Does the Breviary have the daily mass reading in them?

Will these be different than Latin Mass Calendar? Is there a different set that matches up with Latin Mass Calendar?

The edition of the Divine Office that your using in your video can this edition be used in Australia as well as America ?

Is there an easy method of chanting or singing the hours?

Hello, Christopher! Can I buy your videos so, I can play them without being on youtube? Thanks!

I found mine on ebay from a priests estates sale for 100 dollars.

I am interested a book of liturgy of the hours how I will get one.

If u attend mass...ur bulliten should tell u where u r in ordinary time...and readings

I’m hurt that you throw it LOLZ Can’t afford HAHAHA

Surely, you wouldn’t have the time to say all the hours?

I’m so lost

Is that some animal's skin ?

So complicated.

Is that an animal skin? Are you a hunter?